MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM OUR CAVE TO YOURS!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR READERS AND FRIENDS!

We hope everyone has a great party to attend tonight and a Merry Christmas in the morning!!!   Thank you to all our faithful readers and friends we appreciate all of you!  

Iraqi Parliament Ousts Speaker, OKs Non-US Troops

An Iraqi boy looks out of his gate as a U.S. soldier walks by during a routine patrol in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq’s fractious parliament squeezed its abrasive speaker out of a job Tuesday and authorized non-U.S. foreign troops to stay in the country for another half-year, a pair of high-stakes moves in its final session of 2008.

Caveman and the Kid

Today my wife and I went to spend some time with her parents.  Her mother has terminal cancer and has become increasingly weakened by her condition.  My wife has been spending a lot of time there helping her dad take care of  her.  Her dad had been taking care of her mother for quite a long time and the rest of us just didn’t know how sick her mother really was. 

Anyway, today my wife’s youngest nephew was there too, and he was getting bored…really bored like climbing the walls bored.  I could see the frustration in his mama’s eyes. So I thought I would score some brownie points with my wife and offer to take the kid to the airport, show him some planes, and just get him out of the house for awhile to give everyone else a break.

10 Annoying Relatives You May Have To Deal With During the Holidays

    Ah, the holidaze…get ready, ladies, because your favorite relatives are coming out of the woodwork, and they are going to Drive You Nuts. Here is our list of the 10 most annoying relatives ever…just stay by the eggnog all night, and you should do just fine.

Powerful Democrats No Strangers to Scandal

Today, with the Democrats again in firm control of Congress, some of the worst offenders from "Rubbergate" are flourishing. New York Rep. Edolphus Towns (top), who is poised to take over the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, bounced 408 checks between July 1988 and October 1991, according to a congressional investigation into Rubbergate. The panel's previous chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman of California (middle), will take over the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He bounced 434 checks during the period of Rubbergate, investigators found at the time. Rep. John Conyers (bottom) of Michigan is expected to hold on to his gavel as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Investigators found that Conyers had written 273 bad checks during the 39 months covered by their probe.

Scandals have ended more than a few careers in Washington. But a look at some of the top Democrats in the new Congress shows a little bad publicity won’t necessarily doom a fellow.

Come All Ye Pardoned: Bush Pardons 19

A U.S. Marine salutes as President George W. Bush waves from the steps of Marine One helicopter as he departs the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008, to spend the Christmas holiday at the Camp David presidential retreat. Before leaving for the holidays, President Bush commuted one prison sentence and granted 19 pardons, including one to a man who helped the Jewish resistance in the 1940s

Before leaving for the holidays, President Bush on Tuesday commuted one prison sentence and granted 19 pardons, including one to a man who helped the Jewish resistance in the 1940s.

With this latest batch, which includes forgiveness for convictions ranging from gun and drug violations to bank and mail fraud, Bush has granted a total of 191 pardons and nine commutations. That’s fewer than half as many as Presidents Clinton or Reagan issued during their two terms.

Bizarre Killings of Mother and Two Children

Police are investigating the killings of Jeanmarie Geis, top right, and her two children. They were found on Friday, each dead of a single gunshot wound to the head.

Police know a Dallas mother and her two young children each died from a single gunshot wound to the head. And they know that she reported two bizarre attacks in the days before the deaths.

But the circumstances of how Jeanmarie Geis and her children were killed is a mystery that apparently has police stumped as speculation in the community rises.