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.