All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
First Ohio, now Georgia. That’s 98,000 fewer fake votes that can be manufactured when the Democrats are looking to steal an election.
Let them scream and shout about voting rights all they want. In an age when the government and even corporations know your blood pressure GPS location, not knowing whether a voter is alive or dead, or living in another state is a fiction that no longer needs to be allowed. Tammany Hall needs to be shut down.
A very interesting article by the ZMan on the result of only having one retailer, one bank, one local college, one local law firm. Even the rich folks have nowhere to send some of their children to work. He is right about this, I’ve seen it affecting even the cloud people. Now that the working class has been liquidated, they’re coming for the rest of us. Oh well, at least we’ll get bread and circuses for a while.
Posting will be less frequent today and tomorrow for obvious reasons. Camera Girl and I will be visiting with the relatives and I will be eating entirely too much rich food. To all the readers (even you atheists and woke weirdos) I hope you have the brightest and best holiday with those you hold dear.
“when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even.”
Thanksgiving and Christmas have always been a time when Americans get together with family and give thanks for the good things in their lives. For Christians this is a holy season when they contemplate the beauty of the Holy Family and its Christmas story. But even for non-Christians and even those with no faith there is a recognition by many that this celebration seems to radiate joy and hope to those involved. I can remember a few truly awful human beings who, even if for a short period around the holidays, were noticeably better people because of Christmas. Even scientists have lately come to think that belief in God is organically present in the human mind. And for those of us who were brought up during the happier periods before the Progressives destroyed the culture, the celebration of Thanksgiving and Christmas brings back thoughts and feelings of happiness and a sense of community that even found its way into Hollywood films and television shows of the time. But just because the culture has descended into a depravity that derides or ignores the true spirit of these holidays there’s no reason for us to go along with it.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are two of the biggest chances to reconnect with your family. You’ve got at least a few days off and the kids and grandkids are off from school. Here’s a chance to talk to the kids about things that are important to you and find out what’s going on in their lives. And for you older folks like me I’m also talking about your grown children and their husbands and wives. Ask them about their kids and what is going on in their lives. And if you have the means, ask them if they could use a few bucks or even a hand with some problem they are having.
And turn off the damn phones and shut off the computers. It won’t kill anybody to lose track of all the nonsense we are plugged into 24/7/365. And turn off the television. There’s literally nothing on that won’t damage your brain and soul. The only exception I’ll make is if you will pick a good Christmas movie (preferably black and white) or two to watch with the kids. But once it’s over shut the tv and hide the remote.
Have some fun things to do together. One of the things we like to do is play cards. The kids play war and Uno and the rest of us play penny ante poker. It’s basically just an excuse to sit around a table together and talk and interact. And, believe it or not, in my family the women even bond over the cooking and doing the dishes. I’m not saying they enjoy the dishes but it’s something they complain about together and provides a stimulating male/female antagonism that everybody enjoys. But maybe that’s just my family. But at the very least show appreciation for the hard work that went into the dinner and praise it to the sky. That’s a sacred duty.
Go to a Mass at your church if you’re religious and even if you’re not put on some good Christmas music but please try to avoid any of the current crop of pop celebrities. If you have more than a day off then plan something bigger. If you know of a holiday show or a good play look into it and see if anyone would like to go. Go ice skating or skiing if that’s your thing. Or go for a walk in the country if the weather permits. Just make sure you talk with every single one in your family and make some kind of connection. Make some memories. Sure, you’ll get them their favorite toy or gadget but make it more than that. Tell them what you like about the holidays and find out what would make it more fun for them.
And something that brings family together is stories about your extended family and the world that used to exist in the better times. Sometimes old photographs and other memorabilia are interesting to the kids and grandkids. Hearing about how their ancestors overcame the difficulties they experienced and how the families pulled together is a good example for the kids and encouraging even for us. Celebrate these great holidays. It’s your privilege and it’s your duty.
‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through the House
Not a creature was stirring, ‘cept Pelosi the louse
The articles were strung in the indictment with care
In hopes that public would believe what was there;
The Senators were nestled all snug at Club Med
In hopes that their war chests soon would be fed;
And the Post there in D.C. and the Times in Big App’
Had taken a break from shoveling crap.
When on the House lawn there arose such a clatter
Even Pelosi’s dead heart had to go pitter patter;
Away to Security she hobbled to see
What the closed-circuit screen would show it to be.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,
When, what to her big bulging eyes should appear,
But Marine Copter One setting down in high gear
With a big orange rider who made such a thump
As he stepped on the ground, she knew it was Trump
More rapid than eagles his lawyers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;
Now Jared, now Rudi, now Johnny, now Billie
Now I don’t know the others so let’s not be silly.
Take the bugs from the phones, take the mikes from the walls
Now indict away, indict away, indict away all.
He wore a blue suit that bulged here and there
And orange was the color of his face and his hair
Across his smart phone his fingers did crowd
And the words that he typed he mumbled aloud
“Pelosi’s appearance is ugly and sad
The crimes she committed are stupid and bad.
I cannot impeach her, as she did to me
But I’ll get her for graft and away throw the key.”
The men spoke not a word, but went straight to their work,
And collected the data then turned with a jerk,
And hauling their evidence bags to the ship
they jumped up aboard without even a slip
Trump sprang to his craft, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But she heard him tweet out, as he flew through the air,
“Pelosi in prison, that’s not so unfair!”
Ah, Christmas vacation! Expect a slow week on posts. I’m enjoying some time off and too much food. But I will keep activity going and will post some seasonal things for your attention. And of course I’ll be on the lookout for interesting or important news.
Ho, ho ho!
Paul Bradford’s article “Nationalism Won the British Election and It Will Win Again Here,” is a reasonably concise evaluation of the way Boris Johnson steered his party away from both the open borders of Labour and the libertarian economics of the Tories to embrace a Nationalism that successfully united the aspirations of working class and middle class voters.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/19/nationalism-won-the-british-election-and-it-will-win-again-here/
Bradford sums this up in his last sentence, “Put America First and curb immigration. It won in the UK, and it can win again in America.”
Codevilla addresses the new reality of the Deep State justifying extra-legal activities based on bureaucratic authority
https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/18/for-whom-the-new-rules/
His point is if the Deep State agents who committed these crimes aren’t punished then the Republicans will have to embrace the same tactics purely out of self defense. That is the same slippery slope that led the Romans to dictatorship.
Taibbi details the places in the FBI’s narrative where the lies contradict each other. In each case there are two stories that clash and someone has to be lying. Barr and Durham should have a good time raking these creeps over the coals. Even Loretta Lynch is in the cast of shady characters.
Five Questions Still Remaining After the Release of the Horowitz Report
Now that the hens in the House have clucked up their impeachment chicken feed it’s time to see what good can be had from this travesty. The latest polls show that the impeachment is under water from the public’s point of view, a majority is against it. And that’s for the whole country. Among Republican voters it’s closer to 100%. So you would have to imagine that anywhere Republican voters are in the majority that a Democrat congressman who voted for impeachment would be in a lot of trouble.
Here is the list of the 31 Democrat congress-critters that represent districts that President Trump took in his 2016 election along with the President’s winning percentage.
To my way of thinking, any district that the President won by five or more points is very likely to go for a Republican in 2020. And because of the presidential race and also because of the backlash that the impeachment vote in the House will engender I would not be surprised if everything won by three or more percentage points in 2016 doesn’t go to a Republican. That is twenty-one seats. That is a couple of seats more than is needed to flip the House back to the Republicans. And honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if that number goes even higher. The President is much more popular than he was in 2016 or even 2018. So much so that I wouldn’t doubt that in 2020 he’s going to win districts and even states that he didn’t take in 2016. For that reason I think it’s highly likely that the House will switch hands again in 2020 and President Trump will have a usable Republican congress with which to pass important legislation. So to the extent that Nancy Pelosi facilitated this with her ridiculous impeachment charade, then I say thank you Crypt Keeper, good work. Now go off and haunt some other House.