{"id":666,"date":"2008-12-22T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2008\/12\/stocking-stuffers.html"},"modified":"2008-12-22T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T07:03:00","slug":"stocking-stuffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2008\/12\/stocking-stuffers.html","title":{"rendered":"Stocking Stuffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/399\/blogger\/_iTncioBQZNk\/SU-RyoV-7LI\/AAAAAAAACcg\/rahmQWQc2kE\/s1600-h\/stocking+stuffers.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 305px;height: 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/399\/blogger\/_iTncioBQZNk\/SU-RyoV-7LI\/AAAAAAAACcg\/rahmQWQc2kE\/s400\/stocking+stuffers.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:180%\"><span>J<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\">ust catching up on some stuff, having returned from a weekend at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyarchangels.org\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Holy Archangels Monastery<\/a>, a few things caught my eye:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">G<\/span><\/span>eneral Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary. The UAW is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as \u201cworkers\u201d (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The whole Mark Steyn <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/tax-make-new-2261987-kennedy-land\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Breaking News \u2014 Jan Bear updated her blog!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">I<\/span><\/span>f Christmas is not the beyond-strange act of a Creator breaking and entering His creation, passing as a weak and helpless creature beset by enemies, but instead is only a sort of Hallmark special, a cosmological Thomas Kincaide painting, then to hell with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janvbear.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/secular-case-for-christmas.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And now \u2014 who\u2019d a thunk the Orthodox could do this? \u2014 here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/christinthemountains.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/orthodox-gospel-tract.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Good News<\/a> (tract).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Image <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelpaglia.com\/gallery4.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just catching up on some stuff, having returned from a weekend at Holy Archangels Monastery, a few things caught my eye: General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary. 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