Random thoughts before heading to Wal-Mart for the stocking stuffers….
I mentioned last week that I’m not a fan of The Little Drummer Boy. It’s ironic that I’m a percussionist and the one song celebrating my choice of noisemaker grates. But I haven’t asked for the outright banning of the darn thing – after all, it’s a favorite of the kiddies. So when the left went after “Baby It’s Cold Outside” as a song about rape (dear God, how deranged do you have to be? But the upside is that the Dean Martin family is reaping hella royalties since his version is pretty much now at the top of the charts), you wonder what other songs they’d like to go after. I’d say “Santa Baby” but hell, they loved them some Stormy Daniels not so long ago, and this is pretty much her stock and trade. After all, we’re supposed to say “Happy Holidays!” this time of year. Uh, Chanukah was three weeks ago and I don’t know ANYONE who celebrates that made-up holiday Kwaanza; so Merry Christmas works very well right now, having no competition elsewhere.
And of course Pope Socialist I couldn’t let the season go by without reminding us all that he has absolutely no knowledge of the geopolitical world of 2019 years ago. Again with the “they were refugees going to Bethlehem and the heartless people there showed them no kindness.” Holy Leftist Puppet, Batman! They were traveling to Bethlehem to register for the Census and to pay taxes. The INN was full. I mean, if I show up in New Orleans on Mardi Gras with no hotel reservation, am I a refugee and is the Hilton on Poydras Street heartless for not giving me a room? Get it right, dude – you’re the leader of a billion Catholics. If anything, they were refugees when they got to EGYPT. Oh, and once the danger was passed, they went right back to Gallilee. Know how I know? HE isn’t known as “Jesus of Cairo.”
Best joke re Bethlehem. Mary turns to Joseph and says “I said see if you can find a MANAGER!!”
And YES, Virginia, “Die Hard” IS a Christmas Movie. As someone said at Twitchy — “I don’t consider the season complete until I see John McClain blow up Nakitomi Plaza” (in my case it’s when Holly punches the obnoxious reporter at the end). I also consider “Die Hard II” a Christmas movie. How do I know? Because you do not see people traipsing all over Reagan National with festively wrapped packages during the Cherry Blossom festival.
Self-righteous lefties on Twitter demanding that all of us religious, happy for the holidays folks stop wishing them “Merry Christmas”. I’ll let you guess how that ended in their Twitter feeds. Hope their heads didn’t explode.
But here’s a cute story. For those who are not Catholic, it’s required that if your children do not attend parish school during the week, they are to attend “CCD School” on Saturday (Catechism of Catholic Doctrine). In my teens, I assisted with the second graders, they who are on the brink of First Communion. So, for the last class before Christmas, we let the kids have a break. No real work, as there would be Mass and a party later. So I had the kids draw a Christmas picture. I was especially intrigued by one effort – a drawing of a huge airplane with three passengers looking out the portholes, and another face looking out the cockpit. When I inquired what this was, the precocious boy replied
“That’s the flight into Egypt. See? There’s Mary, there’s Joseph and there’s Baby Jesus.”
“Okay, but who’s this?” I said, pointing to the cockpit.
“Punchess Pilot.”
In case I don’t have the opportunity before Tuesday, blessings of the season to you all. And bless you, President Trump.
And here I thought that it was Flyboy who was the drummer… Silly me…
good thing these clowns aren’t the ones tracking Santa.
You know that drone(s) thing that closed Gatwick for 2 days?
Yeah, well…drone? What drone?
Police make incredible claim there may NEVER have been a drone attack on Gatwick as they release ‘most inoffensive bloke ever’ and his wife after ‘ripping their house apart in appalling investigation’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6524457/Police-continue-quiz-double-glazing-worker-Gatwick-drone.html
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/12/23/olympus-has-fallen/
That German reporter fired by Der Spiegel for fabricating stories? It looks like he fabricate charities, too. And stole from them
Spiegel said it now had information that Relotius allegedly launched a campaign for readers to give money to help subjects of an article he wrote but that the bank details he gave directed the funds to his own account.
It was for Syrian children. It’s always “for the children”, isn’t it?
https://www.france24.com/en/20181223-spiegel-file-criminal-complaint-against-cheating-reporter
Barbarian
Read this when you get a chance. It looks like Huber is a total head fake, a Dem fixer and was put in place to do nothing. In particular, read the comments (3 so far) by ‘Rob886’. He’s worked on cases Huber fixed, specifically for Harry Reid. By refusing to turn over evidence.
RealClearInvestigations has learned from potential witnesses, their lawyers and others close to the investigations, that Huber has not impaneled a federal grand jury to subpoena witnesses or hear evidence.
It goes downhill from there.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/12/22/john_huber_vanishing_savior_for_gop.html
@ eaglesoars:
What?! Sessions put someone on a case who wouldn’t do anything? Who woulda’ thunk it?
AZfederalist wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
@ AZfederalist:
@ doriangrey:
Well, here’s Tracey Beanz’s rebuttal to the ‘do nothing’ article by Sperry. I follow her and a few others on twitter specifically because of their research. This is basically an unrolled twitter thread that is long and detailed. She does give some good points for believing something IS being done (I remember the DOJ flight they tracked to Arkansas).
Nevertheless, The ‘Rob866’ comments on Sperry’s article do not assuage me.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1076926742449872896.html
@ eaglesoars:
full disclosure: some people think Tracey is a ‘Q Anon’ person, i.e., perpetrating a ‘believe in the plan’ hoax to keep people in line. If so, that’s a helluva lot of work.
She’s either factual or she isn’t. I’ve yet to see one item from so-called “Q” that makes sounds as credible as a horoscope for aliens
I think we’re about a week from wrapping the move up. The only big furniture left is the sofa and a glass curio cabinet. Every thing else is fairly small.
Then we get to organize, decide what to keep and what to sell.
TV service and internet will be set up Thursday. Bed, couch and chaise delivered the same day. We’ll hang the new TV tomorrow and get as much of the rest moved as we can. We aren’t moving anything on Tuesday.
@ right_wing2:
how are the kitties doing?
Barbarian
I have always said die hard is a Christmas movie
20th century fox agrees
Die Hard | The Greatest Christmas Story | 20th Century FOX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wi28Vsi_ZU
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/12/23/president-trump-makes-mattis-departure-effective-immediately/
Defense Secretary James Mattis wanted us to stay in Paris accord. Trump said no. Mattis wanted us to stay in the Iran deal. Trump said no. Mattis wanted less pressure on NATO. Trump said no. Mattis wanted to keep soldiers in Syria. Trump said no. Mattis wanted to hang around until February… Trump said no.
@ eaglesoars:
They’re still at the old place, and I think some are confused over what’s going on. At least one has been abandoned before.
@ rain of lead:
Of course it is
@ right_wing2:
are you taking them with you?
News from the government shutdown
rain of lead wrote:
Merry Christmas everybody. Mattis did not get one vote. Mattis understands the chain of command and expected junior officers to obey orders. He is now the Lefts favorite general, Odd they didn’t
like him before and said nothing when Obama removed him from Central Command without even a phone call.
@ eaglesoars:
They’ll be the last load.
@ RIX:
I don’t understand. Why is a SecDef interested in whether or not we stay in The Paris Accord?
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup, I had the same thought.
I love this.
Thomas Keller, the darling of Foodies everywhere, is opening a Mexican restaurant near San Fran.
And getting slammed for it. Cultural Appropriation and White Privilege aren’t just appetizers!
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-reaction-to-La-Calenda-Thomas-Keller-s-13482233.php
Of course, nobody wants to mention that in just about ANY restaurant in a major city, the worker bees are primarily Hispanic or Asian and that includes the ‘chefs’.
Anthony Bourdain would be volcanic.
I, however, am loving every minute of it. These people will literally starve themselves on the alter of identity politics and consider themselves saints for it.
right_wing2 wrote:
That’s gonna be a fun ride
@ eaglesoars:
more for me.
NEW THREAD
The NYT has solved the mass shootings problem. One of their star reporters has spent MONTHS of his life looking for patterns and – he FOUND IT!!
I’ve been working on this NYT project for months: Many of the deadliest mass shootings in the US were carried out by killers who used credit cards to buy high-powered weapons+ammunition that they couldn’t otherwise afford. No one was watching
NO
ONE
WAS
WATCHING
<em<BO!
https://twitchy.com/brads-313037/2018/12/24/ny-times-has-a-major-breakthrough-people-buy-guns-the-same-way-they-buy-everything/
eaglesoars wrote:
That doesn’t pass the giggle test.