It was not easy deciding which would fill the final pre-Xmas slot, with Cantique Noel tomorrow and Stille Nacht on Christmas Eve. What tipped it was the need for a more adult tone today and up until the day, then have mainly children on Christmas morning itself … the Bulgarian girls plus King’s boys … it just seems to sit better imho.
(h/t prm)
(0756) Wild weather out there as the light comes up pre 8 a.m. … so it’s already started … summer. Can’t open windows here in the 60 mph gusting wind, down around 50 mph low end. (0841)
5. We Three Kings
4. Quick look across the pond and elsewhere
New NYPD commissioner, third in a year, some disarray (photo is of a new woman commissioner?), DJT claiming the Panama Canal … well it would have changed my route for sure, had the boat gone ahead, although around the Horn is romantic/wild.
Syria’s central bank gold still there, says Reuters, which is Rothschilds anyway … Chinese infiltration of US politics (tell us something new) … that was Gab today. On X:
Steph: “So, DeSantis wouldn’t appoint Lara to the senate seat. I can understand that would have been a tough sell to the party apparatus. It would have demonstrated a commitment to MAGA had he chosen to do it, but of course he would not.”
Rupert: “I sit in Westminster, listening to politicians bang on about these ‘desperate’ asylum seekers and I just think – am I losing my mind? Look at the pictures, look at the facts.” Easy for you to say in parlmt, Rupert, we get thug plod at the door.
That killer was shouting hello snackbar as he was arrested … overheard.
Aussies furious … sit down, shut up, we voted no. That was their referendum on Aborigines having a special place in parlmt. Oz voted for all equal instead. Our equivalent is Brexit, which Starmer is ditching, thinking no one will notice, the criminal.
Kisin: “Western countries won’t stop suffering terrorist attack after terrorist attack until they let go of their most cherished belief: that all people are equal and that all cultures are the same.”
Chrimbo markets “too dangerous to trade” in the UK. Allo snackbar danger? Not according to Brummieland: “Christmas markets this weekend due to the weather forecast. Expected gusts of high wind have forced Harborne Market to cancel and the Birmingham Artisan Markets’ Kings Heath event will now be a click-and-collect service inside a local shop.”
Nuff for now.
3. Kathy’s newsletter
Hmmmm, girls can be slightly careless or very brave, noble, whichever way you see it, when defending family, country etc and I for one say well done, Kathy, Laura, all the other gals … however, you’re going to be in trouble, sweetheart, not unlike Bernie and others … this is Stasi land now … the demonic creep Granny Harmer will almost certainly send in the Rowley orcs.
So most of the newsletter I could not reprint … full marks to a fine gal who is outraged as we are, but we’re playing it a bit closer to the chest … here she is anyway:
“I am praying for even a bit of the Tom Homan effect to arrive here. He doesn’t suck it up, no siree. If you haven’t seen this Tucker Carlson interview with Trump’s new ‘border czar’, premiered last week and titled ‘Plan to Destroy the Cartel Empire, End Child Trafficking, and Secure the Border for Good’ you have a treat in store. One tough and clear-thinking man. He will shut that border down. We don’t even try.
Which brings me to the full beam of Trump’s headlights thrown across the world. Still a full month away from taking office yet he has already shifted the tectonic plates of politics out of recognition. Not since one Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill back in 1939 have we seen how one man with courage, confidence and certainty can change the political culture and public mood.”
Look, there is simply no place in western society today for morally weak men … I’m sorry but it’s so. And one of our jobs is to make it safer for the ladies … even if they don’t always help the cause themselves. Plus it’s our job to be physically all right, to be able to keep the thing running … I just can’t be doing with men acting like girls.
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2. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-serious-prospect-of-reform-as.html
1. Steve at 915
Four: Magdeburg terrorist*, false flag drones, Slovak PM Zelenski, Salvini, Mandelson, more…..
Three: Johnson/Jeffries deal, Rogan Slams Democrats, Media, Deep State, much more……
Two: Uke sit-rep, missiles exchanged, detail……
One: Spike protein persistence, DoD Controlled Covid Program From the Start, much more…..
*JH: The position of the majority of soc-med pundits, esp. in Germany/Austria, is no way was he genuinely anti-deathcult … so obviously deep state activist and very much deathcult.
(1636) Evening all. Just hung out the washing, no judges among em … two longish items by Tim Monty and Dame Andrea … think they’d best start the morning tomorrow. Meanwhile, lean political pickings for now.
12. Ghosts of Chuckles and haiku
Just been reflecting on departed colleagues such as those two gents … plus Ripper … plus Ian … plus Ivan … well we could go on and on. A song for those still hovering somewhere or still upon this earth:
11. Toodles with some thoughtful thoughts
10. Steve at 915
They thought they’d get a whole barrel of pork but ended up with scratchings..
9. Just thought it might be of no interest whatsoever
It’s my compressor readout after reducing or compressing a few items together to go up on the site here. That’s a heck of a saving in disk space. The fact that I never used to do that on ggl … hmmmm, wonder how much that was a factor … the yuge size of the site?
8. Shirley it can’t go on forever
7. Think it’s in Oz by the flag
6. A Labour peerage, eh?
To the daily sceptic? Hmmmm.
I’ve run out of politics for now … let’s have a movie:
(1104) Morning all. (1104)
5. Why do the Augean stables spring to mind?
Suella and The Telegraph:
Always scheduled on the winter solstice, this carol … said solstice was on:
As it’s precisely 0930 GMT as I write, it has passed … and I am sad. More as to why below the carol …
In the carol, there’s a mournful or melancholy tone to the earth and nature resting but I for one beg to differ … there is no season so restful, so hushed, so without stress, bar that which humans bring to it … whilst a “proper” perspective, not just in my eyes, might be:
There’s a song I sometimes run at this time, by Richard Thompson, sung by Fairport Convention:
The album was about Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, and ultimate defeat, but the lyrics do add to the feel of a wintry Britain just as well … requiring of us hearts of oak.
This is my time now, ladies and gentlemen … possibly yours too … a time of intimacy with nature, with our Maker … of reflection … of hush, except for a roaring fire, good cheer, good fayre, bonhomie … I’d vaguely date it from the solstice to maybe January 8 to 10, somewhere there.
(0842) Only just surfacing now, overslept second time. (0924)
4. From Capitalists at Work
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/12/polly-toynbee-true-believer-hope.html
“The public career of Polly Toynbee is a continuous source of mirth. How many socialist saviours has she hitched her wagon to, only to have her hopes crushed. Owen, Blair, Brown, Patricia Hewitt (sic), … and now Starmer/Reeves. Always bearing the imprint of the last person to sit upon her / brief her confidentially over lunch.
But before the worm turns & the Great Disappointment strikes, whilst her wagon still hitched there’s nothing she won’t do by way of providing what she thinks of as helpful outrider support. Here’s the latest – in the Graun, as usual:
The Waspi women suffered outrageous misogyny, but in poverty-stricken Britain they’re not the top priority. The government is right in its decision not to pay the women up to £10.5bn in compensation … a government [does not] have a financial duty to repair historical sexism.
Polly: calm down! Starmer & Reeves – just like your former beau Brown – don’t mind lying & brazening these things out. It just doesn’t bother them! They don’t need your sophistry.”
3. Andy hisself has delivered a Chrissy present to Unherdable Cats
… Burns’s Ode to a Mouse (915)
I wish Andy a speedy recovery too from feline tooth and claw.
2. DAD is not a well cat this morning
… so he’s taking care of bod biz. I join Andy in wishing him a quick recovery (915).
1. Politicised judges and the politics of envy
“HOW RICH is too rich? According to judge Kathaleen McCormick, Chancellor of the Delaware Chancery Court, in her ruling on Musk v Tornetta in January this year, the 2018 remuneration package given to Elon Musk for growing Tesla into a 1.2 trillion-dollar company was way too generous. At the same time she appeared to mock his aim to colonise Mars.
McCormack ordered a rescission of Musk’s options package. He was thereby deprived of all compensation for his work of the previous five years. Two weeks ago, despite an overwhelming and larger second vote by shareholders in June in favour of Musk’s remuneration, judge McCormick, a politicised Democrat, stuck to her ruling that Musk should get nothing.”
(1636) Evening all.
17. It’s down to last minute in the States
I’ve written at OoL about what happened:
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2024/12/just-give-me-one-page-summary.html
Listen up! Lemme give y’all the skinny on what is really happening: It’s all about the “debt ceiling.”
The debt ceiling was suspended in June 2023 (See https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/us-debt-ceiling-senate-vote-06-01-23/index.html). There is no debt ceiling right now, per that bill, until January 1, 2025. This, as you might imagine, is important.
The debt ceiling effective January 1st will be whatever it was back in June 2023 plus whatever spending since then. That opens a little room, but likely means that the debt ceiling will be hit no later than June 2025. This is also important.
The Continuing Resolution (which we’ve all been told to hate cuz it is festooned with pork) would have pushed the debt ceiling back for 2 years. This is something that President-Elect Trump most definitely wants.
Why? Cuz Pres. Trump intends to implement massive tax cuts (no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime, 15% tax max for companies manufacturing here), and those cuts, in the topsy-turvy world of federal budgets, are counted as “spending.” Cutting taxes by $2 trillion? That is $2 trillion in spending. Or so they say.
But, as of now, President-Elect Trump is NOT going to get that extension to the debt ceiling return. This is a problem cuz then his administration will need to figure out how to fit trillions in tax cuts into a timeframe of less than 6 months. Not possible, tbh.
The tax cuts will spur the American economy like putting nitro into a monster truck. But receipts generated from all that wealth production will not arrive in time to prevent American default on debt come June.
If you want to know what the Uniparty/Democrats are holding hostage, it is deciding whether to delay or implement the debt ceiling’s return.
Yik-yak about A.I.-generated Cancer Kidz
all you want. Decry pork. Decry redefining criminals as “Justice Involved.” None of that is the real issue.
The issue is whether President Trump and his administration will be given the runway to Make America Great Again. It’s a real pickle.
And almost no one understands it.
https://punchbowl.news/wp-content/uploads/ARA-12.20.pdf
2241 GMT: The bill already has 11 Republican ‘NAY’ votes. 6 Democrats ‘YES’ already…
16. Unconscionable the way it’s still being pushed
15. Nancy gives herself away a bit
Posobiec clearly has it in for Mace but on the other hand, as he points out … the internet remembers things and they’re easily retrieved from archives. If she were sensible, she’d say right, that was so back then, is no one allowed to learn along the way?
But she didn’t do that … she doubled down and started counterattacking. Not a good look. She might be right on the current issues or not … point is … not a good look.
14. Steve has a few things up
… an item at 913:2 on dishonest pollies, another at 913:3 with war room:
a. Mike Davis: Fani Willis’ Case Of Arrogance, Corruption And Greed. Nathan Wade Billed Time With Biden Whitehouse Council 16 Hours At $250/hr.
b. Brian Glenn: The Base Couldn’t Care Less If This Tyrannical Government Stays Funded.
c. Natalie Winters: “We Are Fully In Support Of Shutting Down This Illegitimate Weaponized Regime”.
d. Mike Benz: Reuters Received Tens Of Millions Of Dollars From The Government To Lie.
Plus: “Elon spreads the word.”