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Merry Christmas, All
Posted by: Emperor Misha I in Imperial Thoughts, Public Announcements12:20 PM
I do apologize for being the last to do so… Well, no I don’t. I have to have the last word, you know. I’m the Emperor, after all. But I definitely can’t not personally wish you all a wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah, Solstice, whatever you celebrate this time of year.
It matters not. What matters is that we’re here, that we have each other, that we have things to celebrate together and things to reach out to each other over when things aren’t so bright. What flavor our faith is, or non-faith for that matter, isn’t really that important right now. To us as individuals, sure, but to us as a community, no.
If there’s one thing that this site has taught me, it is that we can all come together. Not on all things, there will always be issues on which we disagree most vehemently, and thank G-d for that or I’d be bored to death, but if we put our minds to it, we can simultaneously have spirited, heated arguments over that on which we don’t agree and get together on those issues were we do.
I’ve also learned that no man or woman with a community like ours is ever truly alone. To be sure, we may feel alone when life overwhelms us, I’m no stranger to that feeling, but we aren’t really. We’re no further from not being alone than a simple reach out to those who care, and they’re all around us. And this community has provided me and, I hope, all of you, with a readily available and easy way of reaching out when the need arises.
It’s funny when I think about it. This site started out more than 6 years ago because I needed a place to “vent.” I never expected anybody to really read it, much less be interested if they did, yet here we are today. This site, founded to be all about me, isn’t anymore. And I’m grateful for it. I have learned so much, got to know people that I’d have never known otherwise and got to feel the love and support of people I’d never met but, most of all, I have accomplished that which most people never are lucky enough to achieve: I’ve created something bigger than myself.
And I didn’t even know what the heck I was doing when I did it, but that’s true for much of my life. Mheh.
I’m thankful for each and every one of you. I am thankful for those who touched my life and helped me become a better person, those who came and went, those who are still here and those who have yet to show up.
All of you changed and will in the future change me, in some way, and all for the better. We’ve shared sorrows, we’ve shared joys, we’ve wasted retarded amounts of time being just silly, and all of that has been an energy source that would not otherwise have been available to me.
You’ve changed my life and, more importantly, in some cases I’ve been blessed enough to be part of changing some of yours as well, to be part of the rock that you’ve been for me throughout the years.
And all because somebody finally talked me through the easy steps of setting up a website.
Funny how that works, isn’t it?
So I want to thank every single one of you, because without you this site wouldn’t be what it is. It is as much yours as it is mine, if not more so.
I also want to thank every one of the contributors on the Imperial Staff who’ve helped keep the free ice cream flowing when I was too busy doing other stuff. Without you, this would have been a boring place indeed. And not “just” because of you “filling in”, but much more importantly because of your unique perspectives. You can write things that I never could because I’m not you, and Heaven knows that you haven’t been anywhere near sufficiently remunerated for your efforts. The Imperial Pay and Benefits Plan sucks.
And a special thanks to Dave who for years has been making sure that the pipes have kept piping and the pumps have kept pumping around here along with offering himself up as a loyal punching bag. If you want an example of how friendship and politics are two completely different and unrelated matters, you need look no further.
We’re a strange gang around here, but we’re a great gang, and I thank you all for being part of my life.
G-d Bless You All.
Mish
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This is why I come here. I’ll never find the words to express my gratitude, so I will humbly and respectfully say thank you Merry Christmas and may God bless us all.
D’
December 25th, 2008 at 12:40 PMUsing
The Reason for the Season
D’
December 25th, 2008 at 12:43 PMUsing
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
December 25th, 2008 at 12:53 PMUsing
Merry Christmas to all the Rotties. The storm we were waiting on has finally arrived, plenty of wind from the west, mostly hail and rain. It could snow. Good day to remain indoors, got the cats locked up, and sit tight doing some tube or internet surfing.
December 25th, 2008 at 1:03 PMUsing
And here is another christmas gift….it does make me smile……
December 25th, 2008 at 1:38 PMUsing
[...] Uncle Jimbo (literally a second helping, as he, his brother, and his niece made cinnamon rolls) - Emperor Misha I of Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler - Justin of GOP3 - Chris of On the BorderLine - Aakash Raut of [...]
December 25th, 2008 at 1:51 PMUsing
LC HJ Caveman82952 @:
BWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Merry Christmas, indeed!
Merry Christmas, Misha, and everyone here
Robert, Diane and Jaylynn
December 25th, 2008 at 2:02 PMUsing
There is a kinship here… a shared fellowship. An honesty about this place. And as long as such a spirit and peoples exist, there may very well be hope for this country and what she stands for after all.
Merry Christmas and Happiest of New Years Misha, your family, DJ, “The Royal Contributers”, and my (and honored to be included among ya’ll) fellow “Rotties”. May this Blessed Holiday Season and the coming New Year find the gifts of health, happiness, and good tidings overflowing for each and everyone of you.
Close to a good foot of snow already accumulated over the past week or two. With a mix of rain/sleet/snow (followed by frogs and pestilence ??) in route for the next few days. Don’t know if I can take much more of this “globular worming”.
Guy, Debbie, and the gang.
December 25th, 2008 at 2:34 PMUsing
Emperor,
thank you for keeping the drawbridge down so we can all come in, track mud on the royal carpets, rampage through the meade hall, and generally be loud and unruly.
It’s truly been a gift finding and hanging out on the Rott.
Merry Christmas and God bless all of you my fellow LC’s
December 25th, 2008 at 2:36 PMUsing
Merry Christmas to all!! & a Happy New Year!!
December 25th, 2008 at 3:20 PMUsing
LC HJ Caveman82952 @:5 that is good news :em02:
December 25th, 2008 at 3:30 PMUsing
Merry Christmas, happy chanuka, and may everyone have a good new year. And to all Vets and current Service people thanks for keeping me free :em04:
December 25th, 2008 at 3:31 PMUsing
Misha, thank you.
This little community serves as a refuge, research station, rallying point and stronghold. I have few titles, “Dad’, of course being the most treasured, but Admiral of the Imperial 7th Fleet honored me beyond words, and Bard of the Empire is a badge of honor beyond measure to me.
The intelligence, honesty, integrity, experience and humor of the denizens of this slice of cyberspace are beyond compare. I am greatly honored to be able to be a small part of it all.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Misha, and to all the Rotts a blessed season.
December 25th, 2008 at 4:47 PMUsing
Merry Christmas all.
December 25th, 2008 at 5:21 PMUsing
:em03: HOISTS A PINT :em03:
Merry Christmas to all my fellow Rotties.( yes even you Mayim and Clog)
May the new year bring all of us much joy and continued fellowship, I know my life, as blessed as it is with my wonderful wife of 19 years, my 2 boys, friends and family, got alot brighter about 4-5 years ago when I found this place.
I want to take this time to thank you all for being here, to give me a place to discuss, learn, and grow.
Thanks for all the prayers for the situation we are going through now, we had a Christmas miracle that we really did not expect happen to us recently, a woman my wife worked with, and barely talked to or really got along with, sent us a Christmas card with some cash in it, was her Christmas bonus, and since my wife was fired from her job, and not getting a bonus, she decided to give it to us.
My wife, not one to take anykind of charity, tried to give the money back, the woman said if she tried to give it back that she was going to go to the school ( a Catholic school) and have the bonus applied to our kids tuition, so we didn’t have to pay it for a while.
A simple act of kindness from a very unexpected source, this is what gives me hope for the coming year.
December 25th, 2008 at 6:59 PMUsing
Merry Christmas, Rotties.
December 25th, 2008 at 7:04 PMUsing
I simply don’t have the words. Thank YOU, sir. I am honored just to be allowed here. I hope my welcome doesn’t wear out soon, because I have, in the short time I have been here, recieved the same benefits you refer to in your missive.
The gift has been given. We all recieved it. Do with it what you will.
sela!
December 25th, 2008 at 7:08 PMUsing
Happy Holidays Everyone and as Mindy said, thank those whose service allows you to practice and celebrate freely. It is a rare gift.
December 25th, 2008 at 7:09 PMUsing
Taliban try to crash Brit Marine Christmas celebration; Santa’s elves repel them with 81mm mortar barrage.
Per Mare Per Terram
December 25th, 2008 at 7:47 PMUsing
We’ve just recently recovered from naps induced by overeating and having a major family gathering in our new home.
Before the blessing was asked, I informed the group that the best Christmas, or housewarming, present they could have possibly given us was their attendance. I thanked them all for coming, read aloud Luke 2:1-14, then asked my Dad, the patriarch of the clan, to ask the blessing.
It was a powerful moment. And Misha, reading your post was likewise a powerful moment for me. The Rott holds an important place in my life, and in my heart, and I’m thrilled and honored to have your friendship and the special responsibility of being on your staff. Merry Christmas to you, sir, and to all the Rotts I’ve come to know, and the ones I haven’t met yet.
December 25th, 2008 at 9:12 PMUsing
What my bro’ said above @20 !!!!!!
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December 25th, 2008 at 9:30 PMUsing
I hope everyone’s Christmas was a merry one.
December 25th, 2008 at 10:46 PMUsing
Merry Christmas, all, what’s left of it. Try not to pass out in any overeating-induced comas like I was inclined to do..
December 25th, 2008 at 10:46 PMUsing
Hope everyone had/has a Merry Christmas! :em69:
December 25th, 2008 at 11:11 PMUsing
My best to you, the Empress and the heirs.
December 25th, 2008 at 11:33 PMI have learned many things since first landing here years ago.
This place has always given me reason to think deeper and dig for more.
The first post of yours I read had me ROTFLMAO as you tore some loon a new asshole and I knew i was “home”.
There’s a lot of good people who consider themselves to be Rotties and I’m proud to be amongst you all.
It’s nice to know you’re not alone in this world.
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Merry Christmas from Purple Raider Nation.
Happy Hannukah.
And we got one for the other thumb.
10 Time Champion. :em69: :em93: :em03:
December 26th, 2008 at 12:26 AMUsing
(Reaches into saddlebag, unrolls poster, gently dusts it off):
Here ’tis ya’ll, my annual Christmas Card to the Rott nation.
If you can find inspiration in the colors, the Icons, the setting,, or even my message, or of any combination o’ them,, WELL, we’ll get along just fine, and I’m damn proud to know ya!
Every Single One.
Now, go pop some corks!
December 26th, 2008 at 7:28 AMUsing
[...] Misha says it way better and more comprehensively than I did. Consider it all heartily [...]
December 26th, 2008 at 9:39 AMUsing
This may be belated, but it is heart-felt nonetheless … Merry Christmas to all of you!
Misha, whether you will admit it or not, it is you and your charisma that has gathered together this most excellent community. Your writing has so often made me think “damn, that is exactly what I was thinking, but it sounds so much better the way he has written it!”
The Rott is a home, a family of kindred souls. Just “hanging out” here has lifted my spirits so many times - I laugh often, learn something new every day, and now have a long list of people that I just HAVE to meet some day.
God bless each and every one of you.
December 26th, 2008 at 10:07 AMUsing
lc purple raider @ 26:
So when do ya get the balls to play with the bigger kids? Think Division II might be a little rough? :em93:
Reminds me of when ASU was stuck back in the WAC (Wussie Athletic Conference), we kicked UTEP’s ass every year until the PAC decided in 1978 to expand…and then we made the Rose Bowl ranked #7 in 1987 (and beat #4 Michigan) and went again in 1997 and lost to Ohio State and…well I was there, and those two interference calls were…odd.
Merry Christmas to ya anyway. :em03:
December 26th, 2008 at 11:12 AMUsing
BigDogg @ 28:
You hit it, the Emperor is the reason we came by and decided to keep coming by.
His love of this country permeates his essays and posts. That he has lived through and rejected what he warns us about makes it more real. He could have sat in Denmark and bitched from there about what a poor lot he was dealt, but he went through the extreme effort of coming here and becoming a citizen of our great country.
That this only started 6 years ago amazes me. I must have landed here shortly after after he moved off of Blogspot (Just checked, and it’s still there by the way).
As the years have passed, the writers and all their styles that have become part of the Empire just keeps getting better. The font of knowledge I have drawn on from this site is amazing. The history, the insight, the experiences, the friends.
Texas Rottfest in June (?) !!!one!!!!!
If I miss this one, I’m dead or in jail. :em01: :em96:
I hope ya’ll had a very, very Merry Christmas! May your loved ones be safe and healthy, and your enemies turn their ankles, so you know them by their limping. :em03:
December 26th, 2008 at 11:49 AMUsing
It might not be so rough for our football team, but all our other sports teams would get it in the shorts.
December 26th, 2008 at 1:40 PMUsing
lc purple raider:
An honest answer, I never thought about the whole college athletic program having to advance, but they’d all get better in the long run.
December 26th, 2008 at 1:58 PMUsing
A very happy belated merry Christmas to all, and a happy, healthy
December 26th, 2008 at 6:45 PMand prosperous New Year.
(I came in late, didn’t even turn this thing on yesterday.)
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Plus we would have to offer scholarships. Not a good thing for a school of only 2000 students.
December 27th, 2008 at 4:00 AMUsing
I ain’t got the words. Well, I got some words, they’re just not as grand as others….
But you do, Misha, and I’ve been ever grateful for this site and what you have established.
And all that you said above about your gratitude towards us?
Right back to you a thousandfold! And a hearty second to all the good thoughts from everyone else.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and a Prosperous and Healthy New Year to all Rotties and those they hold dear.
Yer Faithful Imperial Hunter,
Jon
Confusion to our enemies!!!!!!!
December 27th, 2008 at 7:58 PMUsing
Merry Christmas, mine liege, and a healthy and blessed new year to you and the royal household.
December 28th, 2008 at 10:56 PMTo all who come here and fill the trough of alternative ideas, I wish the same heartfelt blessing.
If after the event of 2001, I had not found this site, the PTSD I’m strapped with over it would have cut me to the quick. I have only just now been free to skim the site and post this. I’ve been busier this weekend then the DC Dems spinning how Bush is responsible for all things bad, now and forever.
Mike Howard and family.
Chicago
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Wassail! A bit late to the party, but hey - better late than never, right? Season’s Greetings, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Blessed Solstice - did I miss anyone likely to be here?
And yes, all thanks to our beloved Emperor for starting up this grand clearing-house of common sense, good ideas, and confusion to the enemies of civilization. One of my usual daily stops on the Intertubes, and one of my favorites.
December 29th, 2008 at 11:59 AMUsing