Or at least semi-active. I don’t know how much I’ll use this, but I decided to “test-drive” Pollhost.com‘s free poll hosting to see if Jessica could/should use that as a replacement for the ad-plagued Bravenet she had been using. It seems to be working, the ads are limited to the results page, and I even don’t accept cookies from the site.
No Runny Eggs
The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.
Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category
January 9, 2006
Polling now active – Should Jessica bring back the Mini-Poll?
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Refund anticipation loans – another take
Now that I’m dried off from testing out the Sykes Cement Shoes (yes, they do sink a blogger), it’s back to business. Channel 12 gives us a story on a state warning about tax refund anticipation loans. I do agree with the state that these are very bad ideas, and for the reason why they state – it’s borrowing your own money at an exhorbitant interest rate. However, there’s a point they don’t bring up. In order to get that massive “refund”, you were borrowing your own money to the state and the feds at no interest rate. What are you doing giving the state so much tax money through the course of the year that you have a massive “refund” coming? That’s money that you could have invested over the course of the year, and instead of having less purchasing power from it by taking it as a late lump sum, you could have either spent it as it came in and had more stuff for your money, or done the really-smart thing, invested it and actually made some money.
Do note that I’m not saying take withholding down to zero (though I would prefer that, with everybody writing a quarterly check like those that earn most of their income from sources where withholding doesn’t happen, just to see how much money is going out the door to government – it’s FAR more than the property taxes, almost 47.5 times more as of 2004, and that’s just the state income tax), because that would, without the estimated quarterly tax payments, get you in a heap of trouble. I do recommend asking your tax advisor a different question than the usual maximize-refund one; “How do I maximize my take-home pay without getting whacked with penalities?”
That’s the last time I do a “sticky” the easy way
The dearly-departed “Revisiting history – Part 3” got me in serious trouble with the Blogfather. It seems that because I post-dated it to the end of this month, Charlie’s feed reader got all discombobulated and that resulted in a short trip off the Bender Park boat launch.
Things got worse when I first rubbed it back out; it didn’t want to die. Sure, Blogger said it wasn’t there, but the home page disagreed. I finally re-created a current-dated version and sent it to Jones Island.
Never fear; the gist of it lives on, and it has a more-permanent home, at least until we defeat AB15, the bad-gas bill. Speaking of which, I have yet to hear back from Plale. Looks like I’ll be busy tomorrow (I might even do a road trip for some citizen lobbying if he continues to ignore me, but I won’t take the Voces de la Frontera route and trek into South Milwaukee).
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Erratic is my middle name
I guess I can’t complain too much about getting whacked off the Blogfather’s blogroll. At least Aaron won’t be borrowing Tony Montana’s little friend.
Revisions/extensions; I’m drying off from the late Polar Bear dunk. No harm, no foul.
Couldn’t take apart Kane better myself
If I really cared about what Eugene Kane says, I would have done what Fred did and done a ReWriteâ„¢ of Kane’s bit in the Jountinel’s full frontal assault on this end of the Cheddarsphere.
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January 8, 2006
Housekeeping
I noticed that I started missing comments over here at NRE. After doing some testing, it seems that RoadRunner isn’t accepting the notification e-mails from Blogger anymore. Anyhow, I went and set up a(nother) throwaway e-mail on a mostly-dormant domain I have, tied it back into my main e-mail client, and am good to go again.
Tips for preventing sun-related injuries
Considering we haven’t had sun for the last 15 days (BTW, that set a record for doom and gloom here in the land of cheese and beer), you might be confused by that bright yellow ball in the sky. Here are some helpful hints to prevent a host of sun-related injuries:
- Don’t look directly into the sun.
- Use sunglasses that block ultraviolet light.
- If outside for extended periods of time (it’s too warm to ice fish, there’s no snow so you can’t snowmobile or ski, and it’s too cold to do anything else), wear sunscreen on your face.
Revisions/extensions – Hope you didn’t blink; the clouds are back, and a wintry mix is headed in. Oh well; the NWS says it will be mostly sunny Tuesday and partly cloudy Wednesday, while TWC puts Wednesday as mostly cloudy. Oh, and the cold returns after next weekend and another round of wintry mix.
January 7, 2006
It’s playoff time – get your picks here
I’ll eventually figure out how I did in the regular season, but we have 11 games that matter left. The first 4 are this weekend, and they include 2 of the last 3 games to ever air on ABC.
Washington (+2.5/over 36.5) @ Tampa Bay – There just is no substitute for ‘sperience.
Jacksonville @ New England (-7.5/over 37.5) – The Pats are peaking at just the right time.
Carolina @ NY Giants (-2.5/under 43.5) – The dead Jimmys (Hoffa and “Masterlock” Duggans) agree; take the G-men.
Pittsburgh (-3/under 46.5) @ Cincinnati – The BenGALS are one and done.
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January 6, 2006
The unwieldy blogroll just got a bit more unwieldy
Now that Brian Fraley officially launched Fraley’s Dailytakes, and I got around to remembering, it’s time to graft another blog onto the blogroll.
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January 5, 2006
Turn out the lights, the money is gone
(H/T – Charlie and Aaron, who really belongs on Charlie’s blogroll)
The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance reports that between 1995 and 2000, despite gaining 4,400 households (their numbers; I come up with a 240,000-person gain using Census Bureau numbers), Wisconsin lost $4.72 billion in household net worth and lost $454.8 million in income. No, that is not per-capita or per-household, that’s the total amount; and no, that was not during either Bush Presidency, that was during what lefties love to call “The Best Damn Economy Ever” in the Clinton Presidency.
During the same time (numbers again courtesy the Census Bureau), the total state and local tax burden in Wisconsin went up $3,545,704,000 (or if you prefer, $3.55 billion), from $9,029,488,000 in 1995 to $12,575,192,000 in 2000. Let’s review: population went up a bit; total net worth went way, way down; total income went way down; and taxes still went way, way up. Of particular note, personal income taxes went up $2,030,363,000 when personal income went down $454,800,000. And we still have gubmint types demanding we spend more and more and more and more money on gubmint?
Revisions/extensions – Dad29 points out that those state taxes went up while Tommy Thompson had an iron grip on the governor’s mansion. ‘Tis why we have a bipartisan Party of Gubmint in Wisconsin
Beware the Anti-Tabor
Revisions/extensions – I forgot to mention that this particular version of the Anti-Tabor comes from Terry Musser, a Pubbie member of the Party of Gubmint.
(Major H/T – Dennis York)
Dennis really does do it all, from discussing MMSD’s favorite rainy-season product to the serious. This time, he heads to the serious (at least until the end) and takes on Assembly Joint Resolution 71, which can fairly be described (and is) as the anti-TABOR. It starts out flawed by exempting sewerage districts and the like from the limits on property tax/fee levies (previous year plus inflation in Milwaukee/Racine plus new construction) and the referendum requrirement to bust and reset the limits. Yep, that’s right, MMSD still gets to jack up the property taxes as much as they want so they can keep dumping the brown hostages into the lake.
Then it goes into the horrid by mandating the state spend AT LEAST the amount it did on local aid the previous year plus inflation plus new construction. So much for getting a handle on 60% of state spending (and before long, it will be 70%, then 80%).
There is a one more kicker to the taxpayers’ hindquarters (or will it be the family jewels?); a very-poorly written (from a taxpayer’s perspective, at least) “emergency” exemption to the limits that takes merely a 2/3rds vote by the governing body to invoke – …any expenditure of a local governmental unit that the governing body of the local governmental unit did not anticipate and in an amount that is greater than 10 percent of the amount of the local governmental unit’s fiscal year budget. Allow me to translate; if 2/3rds of your common council/school board/county board/et al can create a mid-year financial “crisis”, up go the taxes, and more importantly, the ceiling for the following year’s taxes and the floor for the following year’s state spending on local government.
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WMF vulnerability – fixed by Microsoft early
The WMF vulnerability (documented by Dad29 here and here) has been patched for Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP1/SP2/x64 and Windows 2003 (all versions). If you have any of those systems, run Windows/Microsoft Update immediately, then you may reregister the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer by typing regsvr32 %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll
For those of you with Win98/ME, you’re SOL. Microsoft says that it’s not a “critical” security breach for you. And if you have NT x.x/2000 SP3 or earlier/95/3.x (the vulnerability of the last 2 are by heresay only at this point), you’re REALLY SOL; Microsoft wants your money for the newer OSes.
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January 4, 2006
Turds, turds everywhere
Dennis York started it, the Spice Boys picked it up, and Jib continued it, so I may as well jump on the turd picture bandwagon before the rest of my fellow bartenders do.
Warning – the following image should not be viewed by those under 13 unless accompanied by an adult, those with weak stomachs, Packer fans still distraught over 4-12, or those with no sense of humor.
Image courtesy Packers.com
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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Blogroll growing again
The newest additions –
Right off the Shore – Jenna’s one brave woman; not only is she in Madistan, but she goes to Karl Marx Univers…er, University of Wisconsin.
Reardon Report – Seems Mark Reardon got on the blogging kick, and he’s more of a quick-hitter than…
Wagner on the Web -…Jeff Wagner, who does opuses when he updates.
And no, I’m not going to put the blogroll in any sort of order anytime soon. I like the randomness.
West Virginia miners story – a few questions
The initial news that there were 12 survivors proved to be woefully and tragically wrong, with only 1 survivor rescued and 11 bodies recovered. Before the questions, the events of last night/this morning as they unfolded (at least the best I can reconstruct them because I was asleep; a HUGE hat-tip to Free Republic) –
- Just short of midnight EST – someone overheard a communication between the search party and the command post, apparently misunderstands either “all found” or “all found, at least one alive” (exact wording unknown) to mean “all found alive”, word spreads to families gathered at a church from what appears to be an unofficial source, they start celebrating.
- 11:59 pm EST – AP reports that the families were saying that the 12 miners were found alive, notes that neither the company that owns the mine nor the governor’s office was confirming this.
- Midnight EST – Everybody starts reporting that they were alive, not bothering to note that it was unconfirmed at that point.
- Roughly 12:20 am EST – word gets to the command post that there were not 12 survivors (what is unknown is the exact wording used).
- 12:40 am EST – Reuters carries a dispatch saying all 12 are alive, no disclaimer that this was still unconfirmed by any official. This story says that the word was spread to the families by a man who burst into the church saying, “It’s a miracle, it’s a miracle.”
- 1:12 am EST – AP carries an updated dispatch (no longer in the AP archives) quoting Governor Joe Manchin as saying, “They told us they have 12 alive.” The “they” is left unidentified, and the story notes that the company still was not confirming this. Side note; this appears to be the dispatch which Editor and Publisher uses to blast the AP in their larger blast of the media as a whole.
- 1:15 am EST – The first (and as it turns out, only) ambulance leaves the mine site with a survivor.
- 2:09 am EST – CNN reports that survivor was in critical condition.
- 2:45 am EST – The company’s CEO told the families in the church that there was only one survivor. Media goes into full self-righteous indignation mode, ignoring that they had run with the story for better than an hour with absolutely, positively zero confirmation.
Well, I have a few questions:
- Where did “all found alive” first come about?
- Who was the one that burst into the church with the false good news?
- Why did the press run with this story for better than an hour without any confirmation, with many outlets not disclosing that there was not any confirmation? Do note that I give the AP itself a pass – their stories up through the wrong confirmation from the governor sourced this to the families and noted that it was unconfirmed, and their story quoting the governor also noted that the company had not confirmed the news.
- Who told the governor that all 12 were alive with enough authority that he believed it?
- When were the 11 that died declared dead?
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January 3, 2006
Mike Sherman gone and to be forgotten
Everybody and his brother has already commented on the firing of Mike Sherman by Ted E. Thompson (genius). Allow me to add my two cents’ worth of stats:
2-4 – playoff record under Sherman (0-2 on the road)
2-4 – home opener record under Sherman
12-12 – home record since the 2002 season (capped by the first home playoff loss in team history) Homer nod – that 12-12 is the regular-season record since 2002; make it 13-13 including the playoffs.
Sherman’s firing was a year late. Hopefully, Bob Harlan comes to his senses quickly and fires Wile E. Thompson (suuuuper genius) before the draft so we’re not also left a dollar short.
As for Brett Favre, it’s been a great ride. We’ll miss those bullet passes off the back foot 40 yards downrange, the fire with which he played, and the playground improvs – unfortunately with Aaron Rodgers, it looks like we won’t lose the bonehead passes that turn into picks. There had to be a reason why 23 teams between the Niners and the Packers, some of whom really needed a quarterback, passed on him in the draft when he was talked about in the same breath as #1 pick Alex Smith (oops, another bust).
January 1, 2006
December 31, 2005
Revisiting history – part 2
This restatement of “Those who don’t remember history”, or its January version, will be at the top of the blog until AB15, the bad-ethanol-gas bill, is defeated (except for a temporary move one spot down during Christmas). Please look for the regular posts below.
How appropriate it is that the penultimate reaction to the first episode happened 232 years ago December 16th. A politically-connected industry finds itself with a massive amount of product that it can’t sell. It goes to the government to get a monopoly in a new market to get rid of it and goes on to claim that it will actually cost less to do it that way. I am not talking about the East India Tea Company back in the 1770s (which led to the Boston Tea Party and ultimately the creation of the United States of America), but ethanol in 2005. That’s right, the Assembly forgot its history and crammed AB15, the bill mandating the more-expensive, less-efficient, more-polluting, GM-engine-killing statewide E10 gasoline mandate through the day the day before the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
There is at least one more chance to stop this, and likely just that one more chance. This bill still has to go through the Senate (my list of semi-confirmed “no” votes here). If it makes it through, Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/ADM-Potawatomi) has already promised ADM that he would sign it. Those Senate staffers you called regarding the repeal of the automatic gas-tax increase are still there in Madison. Call them today! If you don’t have the number (for shame; you should still have it from the efforts to repeal the automatic gas-tax increase), go here to find your Senator and his or her phone number. I’ll be back tomorrow (12/16) with the response I get from my Senator, Jeff Plale (Madison phone # – (608) 266-7505).
Revisions/extensions part 1 – At least I planned on being back here today (12/16) with that info. I got Sen. Plale’s messaging service at 10:39 am 12/16, on which I urged him to oppose AB15 and invited him to give me a call back.
Revisions/extensions part 2 (8 am 12/17) – Still no sign from Plale (apparently, he’s going East Side on me again); and I got tired of re-bumping this to the top, hence the forwarding of the date to the last possible minute of the month.
Homer nod – I need a new calendar :-)
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Reggie Bush sweepstakes – Week 17 (Sat. view)
Last week, I gave you what must happen for the Packers to get the #1 pick outright. Well, Brook Bollinger disappointed again, and we’ve started the NFL weekend out right (the bookies might not agree if you followed my advice :-) So, I bring you the update after the Saturday games –
- The Pack must lose to the Seahawks at home.
- The Texans must beat the oh-so-close-to-2-in-a-row Niners in San Francisco.
- The Saints must not lose in Tampa.
- All of the following must happen to avoid a coin flip with the Texans (one tie can happen; anything more than one thing not happening gives the higher pick to the Texans):
- The Jets choke to Buffalo at home.
- Arizona does the expected and loses in Indianapolis.
- Detroit lays an egg in Pittsburgh.
- St. Louis ends Dallas’ playoff dreams. (Sorry James; we need this, and the odds say this will be a meaningless game anyway)
- All of the following must happen to avoid a coin flip with the Jets assuming they lose (again, one tie can happen and anything more than one thing not happening gives the higher pick to the Jets) because the Raiders proved they’re the dumbest team ever (it fit with the dumbest announcing crew ever):
- The OldBrowns go back to Cleveland and win.
- The Bengals get cooked by the Ch(i)efs.
- The Titans fall before Jacksonville.
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Will the last business to leave Wisconsin please turn off the lights
(H/T – Owen)
They don’t need power at the Wisconsin Supreme Court building. They ruled yesterday 4-3 that a teen with cerebal palsy allegedly caused by a lack of oxygen during birth and his family may continue with a lawsuit that was first filed when he was 11.
The usual gang of 4, Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, Ann Walsh Bradley (the author), Patrick “Turncoat” Crooks (still no announced opponent for him, and he’s up for re-election in 2006) and “Loophole” Louis Butler (Steve Austin reminds us to “thank” the Pubbies for him over at B&S), said, “The Legislature has not provided a statute of limitations for claims against health care providers alleging injury to a developmentally disabled child. This determination is the only determination the court is able to reach without either rewriting the statutes or working an absurd and illogical result.”
David Prosser, the author of the dissent (joined by Jon Wilcox and Pat Roggensack), said, “The majority authorizes suit in this case more than 11 ½ years after the child’s alleged injury and boasts in doing so that it has avoided rewriting the statute. This is not judicial restraint.”
Owen has more.
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NFL Week 17
As Dandy Don said about Monday Night Football, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over.” This is the last week for the regular season, but I’ll be around for the playoffs, where the money can really change hands. I’ll eventually recall how badly I’ve done the last few weeks, but for now, I’ll just go through the last 16 games of the regular season that will result in the Packers drafting 3rd.
Denver (+10.5) @ San Diego – I know Mike Shanahan’s resting his starters in this completely-meaningless game, but 10 1/2 points is too much to give. Now if this were the 5 1/2 that it started off at,….
NY Giants (-8) @ Oakland – The Raiders can’t even play spoilers right.
Cincinnati @ Kansas City (-7.5) – In the end, they’re the BenGALS.
Miami @ New England (-5.5) – Forecast for Foxboro – snow. That’ll cool off the Dullfins.
Buffalo (-1.5) @ NY Jets – Come on, say it with me!
Carolina (-3.5) @ Atlanta – Atlanta doesn’t spoil too well.
Detroit @ Pittsburgh (-13.5) – My pre-season pick for Super Bowl XL champs have their destiny in their hands. Fortunately, even I can hold that destiny against Dick Jauron.
Baltimore (-3) @ Cleveland – The OldBrowns defense isn’t what it used to be, but they still eat rookie QBs for lunch.
New Orleans @ Tampa Bay (-13.5) – The Bucs control their own destiny, and except for Houston, so do the Saints. In short, lay the very heavy lumber.
Seattle (+4.5) @ Green Bay – Seattle’s 3rd string could beat this team. In fact, they probably will as Mike Holmgren pulls his 2nd string in the 4th.
Arizona @ Indianapolis (-6.5) – Arizona’s no Seattle, Denny Green’s no Holmgren, and this one is at home sweet dome.
Houston @ San Francisco (+1) – How in the hell are the Texans favored? They HAVE to lose this game (or hope against hope that New Orleans, the Jets and Green Bay win earlier in the afternoon) to win the Reggie Bush Sweepstakes.
Tennessee @ Jacksonville (-3.5) – I know not who’s starting at QB for the Jags, but I know who’s not going to win.
Chicago @ Minnesota (-4) – Expect one last heavy dose of Kyle “Jack” Orton. Bet accordingly.
Washington (-7.5) @ Philadelphia – If you made this prop bet that it would be the Redskins playing for a playoff spot instead of the Eagles at the beginning of the season, show me your stub.
St Louis (+12.5) @ Dallas – By the time they kick this one off, the game will be meaningless to everyone except gambling degenerates (so I’ll be watching closely).
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December 30, 2005
Ten Worst Americans of all time
(H/T – Ramjac7)
Alexandra von Maltzan of All Things Beautiful has issued a challenge to the blogosphere to come up with the 10 worst Americans of all time. Hmmm, so many choices, so little time. So, here’s my Bottom 10:
10. Bill Clinton – If he were dead, he would be far, far closer to the bottom (he just might redeem himself – yeah, right). Multiple chances to get Osama bin Laden in the 1990s, the Black Hawk Down fiasco, scandal after scandal after scandal, sending missile-launching and -targeting technology to the Red Chinese; in sum, a failed Presidency.
9. John Wilkes Booth – Thanks to him, we’ll never know if the Lincoln Plan for reconstituting the South into the Union would have worked. Instead, we were left with Andrew Johnson’s jack-booted methods, which we’re still suffering from.
8. Aaron Burr – Easily the worst Vice President in the history of the US. Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel while VP, resigned in disgrace, and tried to set up a competing empire.
7. Joe Kennedy – Staunch isolationist, Hitler sympathizer, and he gave us John, Robert and Ted Kennedy.
6. Andrew Johnson – Instituted said jack-booted Reconstruction, and so corrupt he became the first President impeached (he survived by a single vote in the Senate).
5. John Walker Jr. – He gets the nod over Aldrich Ames because had the Cold War gone hot, his handover of our communications codes would have cost FAR more lives than Aldrich’s sale of operatives to the Soviets.
4. Jeffrey Dahmer – No “Worst” list is complete without at least one mass-murderer, and perhaps because Dahmer did his work in Milwaukee, he’s the NRE’s representative.
3. Nathan Bedford Forrest – Founded the Ku Klux Klan after being a Confederate general. Robert “Sheets” Byrd (D-West Virginia) thanks you.
2. Earl Warren – Before the infamous Warren Court, he was the driving force behind the Japanese internment camps.
1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt – Father of the welfare state, enough of an egomaniac to serve more than 3 terms and force a term limit on the Presidency (when no other office of federal government, even the Vice Presidency, is term-limited), enabled J. Edgar Hoover, extended the Great Depression into WWII, good friend of Iosef Stalin (in fact, his shadow involvement in WWII only was apparent after the Soviet Union got invaded), approving said Japanese internment camps. Not even the successful conclusion to WWII can save him from the bottom of the list.
December 26, 2005
Wisconsin’s Christmas present to those with colds
Running into a guy from church looking for relief from a head cold at a local Walgreen’s while shopping for batteries (not a 24-hour one with a 24-hour pharmacy department, though I live virtually next to one of those) got me to thinking of the utter stupidity of requiring a pharmacist to get you cold medicine. What if you got a cold late Christmas Eve and didn’t have easy access to one of those 24-hour-pharmacy Walgreen’s? You would have been suffering for close to 2 days just so that various politicians from the bipartisan Party of Gubmint can feel good about themselves.
“Thank” you, Party of Gubmint (feel free to substitute another word for “thank”).
The Reggie Bush Sweepstakes – Week 16
For those of you dreaming about the #1 overall pick for the Pack and Reggie Bush in the Green and Gold (assuming that “Genius” Thompson doesn’t frag it up and take Tony Mandarich Jr.), here is what must happen for the Packers (3-12) to get the #1 pick outright from fellow contenders Houston Texans (2-13), New Orleans Saints (3-12) and New York Jets (3-11; playing tonight) (I don’t know how tiebreakers beyond the initial Strength of Schedule apply to teams from different conferences), assuming that the Jets lose to the Patriots tonight (the Jets are 7-point home dogs) –
- The Pack must lose to the Seahawks at home.
- The Texans must beat the oh-so-close-to-2-in-a-row Niners in San Francisco (the Niners’ SoS is too strong).
- The Saints must not lose in Tampa (the Saints will finish with a worse SoS than the Pack).
- All of the following must happen (one tie can happen; two ties or one thing completely opposite will trigger further tiebreakers with the Texans):
- The Jets choke to Buffalo at home.
- Arizona does the expected and lose in Indianapolis
- St. Louis ends Dallas’ playoff dreams (sorry James; we need this).
- Detroit lays an egg in Pittsburgh.
- Assuming that the Jets lose both of their remaining games, 3 of these 4 things must happen (a tie counts as a half-not-happening, and we can have 3 of those):
- The OldBrowns go back to Cleveland and win.
- The Bengals get cooked by the C(h)iefs.
- The Titans fall before Jacksonville.
- The Giants take the night off in Oakland.
In short, root for the Seahags, Whiners, Aints, J-E-T-S SUCK! SUCK! SUCK! tonight but not next weekend, Bills, Colts, Lambs, Steelers, OldBrowns, Chefs, Jags and Raiders, and then demand a real GM before the draft. Simple as mud.
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December 24, 2005
Have a Blessed Christmas
Luke’s account of Jesus Christ’s birth, from Luke 2:1-12 (NIV), will be at the top of this blog through the end of Christmas Day.
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem, the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
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