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  3. Check out the fantastic, “I’m the Fourth Best President–NOT” Michael Ramirez cartoon at Powerline:
    DECEMBER 22, 2011 — JOHN HINDERAKER
    “OBAMA’S PLACE ON THE CONTINUUM OF GREATNESS: A DISSENTING VIEW”
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/

  9. Hi Kate. It’s from Denis Leary’s Christmas show from 2005. I snagged it off the Comedy Network last year.

  11. Is This Hell? No, It’s Iowa
    Since Obama is the presumed Democratic candidate in 2012, this year it’s the Republican candidates who must now woo the sad, semiliterate populace of this benighted barren outpost beyond the frontier of rational civilization. They’re falling over each other in front of grain elevators and cornfields, over biscuits and hogslop in breakfast cafes, in ghost-haunted tornado-ravaged baseball cornfields, and at potluck dinners (casseroles are the thing to bring), under the covered bridges of Madison County with lonely sex-starved Italian war widows, glad-handing and backslapping and eyepoking as many Iowa voters they can. Great photo ops, you know. Hoisting a baby in the air is good politics. So’s gulping down a brat (short for “bratwurst” – contrary to popular myth, Iowans seldom eat misbehaving children).
    http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/12/is-this-hell.html

  15. O’Mao Walnut.
    …-
    “High-Speed Rail Project in California Under Scrutiny
    The Obama administration’s plans for a bullet train could be headed off the tracks in California, the one state where its high-speed rail initiative is still alive.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2824582/posts
    …-
    “Mysteries of a Railways Minister’s Confidant”
    “Zhang Shuguang feared he was in too deep during China’s bullet-train expansion and, for reasons unclear, he was right”
    “The owners of a well-kept home with a manicured lawn at 668 Pierre Road, Walnut, California, are somewhat of a mystery to the people living nearby.
    Until early this year, local property records identified the owners as Zhang Shuguang, 55, formerly a high-level government official working for the China Ministry of Railways, and his wife, a businesswoman named Wang Xing.
    Zhang and Wang might have felt comfortable living in Walnut, an upper-class suburb east of Los Angeles where more than 60 percent of the residents are Asian. The home and its tree-shaded yard are luxurious by Chinese standards.
    Someone obviously cares for the property:”.
    http://english.caixin.cn/2011-12-23/100341893.html

  18. Here’s a beautiful version of The Huron Carol, sung by Canada’s own Elora Festival Singers:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D-m-PwKVsM
    (I don’t know who chose the visuals: I’d skip them—and the ad!)
    Here are the words for the third verse, which has been left out. Too bad.
    “The earliest moon of wintertime is not so round and fair
    As was the ring of glory on the helpless infant there.
    The chiefs from far before him knelt with gifts of fox and beaver pelt.
    Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.”
    (Written in 1643 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit mmissionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song’s original Huron title is “Jesous Ahatonhia”/”Jesus, he is born”. Translated by Jesse Edgar Middleton, 1926. Music: French Canadian melody.)

  19. More accomplishments from a Top 4 POTUS
    “US debt, net of all settlements for all already completed bond auctions, is now at precisely $15,182,756,264,288.80. Why is this relevant? Because the latest annualized US GDP, according to the BEA, was $15,180,900,000.00. Which means that, as of today, total US debt to GDP is 100.012%. ”
    http://tinyurl.com/73dpvwp

  20. I’m having very unChritmassy thoughts! I’ve just tried to post a version of The Huron Carol
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D-m-PwKVsM) with a few words about it.
    It’s now in the filter . . . ???
    The third verse was left out:
    “The earliest moon of wintertime is not so round and fair
    As was the ring of glory on the helpless infant there.
    The chiefs from far before him knelt with gifts of fox and beaver pelt.
    Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.”
    P.S. Skip the visuals.
    Now, will this make it?

  22. moment-of-silence-to-honor-a-tyrant
    “minute’s silence to mourn the death of Kim Jong Il, leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
    Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, president of the 66th General Assembly session, asked the representatives of 193 UN member states attending a plenary session on economic and financial affairs to pay tribute to the late DPRK leader, who died on Dec. 17.
    The move was at the request of the DPRK, said the president, and the one-minute silence was observed before the start of the plenary meeting of the General Assembly.
    Canada wasn’t the only country to boycott the moment of silence, but the list was pathetically small, if distinguished:
    However, representatives of the United States, Japan, South Korea on Thursday boycotted the one-minute silence at the General Assembly, with Britain, France, Germany and other European countries joining them.”
    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/23/un-hey-whos-up-for-a-moment-of-silence-to-honor-a-tyrant/

  24. I get unChristmasy thoughts when people here bitch about the filter.
    Without that filter, there would be no commenting privileges at all. It’s software that protects this blog from spam attacks that can shut it down.
    It’s the price of admission.
    So, chill.

  25. Posted by: Kate at December 24, 2011 11:27 AM
    couldn’t U just HIRE a human filter, they might just be a little more discrete:-))))

  27. The five-week Occupy Toronto encampment cost taxpayers $714,000, mostly for policing, the city revealed Friday.
    About 30 truckloads of waste were removed from the park during the eviction operation, city staff confirmed.
    … a significant portion of the costs likely arose from the predawn eviction operation, during which busloads of officers arrived to oversee the camp’s dismantling.
    But while violent skirmishes had erupted between police and protesters at other Occupy camps around the globe, Occupy Toronto ended peacefully, with just a few arrests.
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/24/occupy-toronto-cost-taxpayers-714000/

  28. Kate 12:03
    It has to be a joke, but you could set up a donation box designated for hiring a filter. Once there’s enough money, I’ll apply for the job (for which I’ll just end up using automated software as well)

  30. another jihadist enters the world…violently, of course.
    A muslim in France has been jailed after he punched a nurse who tried to remove his wife’s veil during childbirth.
    Nassim Mimoune, 24, had already been expelled from the delivery room for branding the midwife a ‘rapist’ as she carried out an intimate examination of his wife, the Daily Mail reported.
    But just as he spotted the nurse, through a window, taking off his wife’s burqa while the woman prepared to give birth, the man smashed open the locked door. He hit the woman in the face, demanding she replace the full Islamic veil.
    After his wife gave birth to a baby boy, Mimoune was ejected from the hospital building by security guards in Marseille. He was later arrested for assault.
    A judge in the southern French port jailed Mimoune for six months while saying: ‘Your religious values are not superior to the laws of the republic.’

  31. Canadian Reginald Fessenden: 24 December, 1906.
    “on Christmas Eve, 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first radio broadcast in history.”
    “At the end of the 19th century, people communicated by radio using Morse code – sputtering dots and dashes that trained radio operators could decode into a message. A Canadian inventor, Reginald Fessenden, changed all that. In 1900 he transmitted the world’s first voice message. It took six years for Reginald Fessenden to refine his invention but on Christmas Eve, 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first radio broadcast in history.”
    http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfessenden.htm

  33. “THE COMPLAINT OF PEACE.”
    “I behold a city enclosed with walls. Hope springs in my bosom that men, christian men, must live in concord here, if any where, surrounded, as they are, by the same ramparts, governed by the same laws, embarked, as it were, in the same bottom, in the voyage of life, and therefore exposed to one common danger. But, ill-fated as I am, here also I find all happiness vitiated by dissension, that I can scarcely discover a single tenement in which I can take up my residence for the space of a few days only, unmolested.
    But I leave the common people, who are tossed about, like the waves, by the winds of passion. I enter the courts of kings as into a harbour, from the storm of folly. Here, say I to myself, here must be a place for Peace to lodge in. These personages are wiser than the vulgar; they are the minds of the commonalty, the eyes of the people. They claim also to be the vicegerents of Him who was the teacher of charity, the Prince of Peace, from whom I come with letters of recommendation, addressed, indeed, in general, to all men, but more particularly to such as these.
    Appearances, on my entrance into the palace, promise well.”
    http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=87&layout=html
    …-
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078371/90-000-pilgrims-descend-little-town-Bethlehem-Christmas-celebrations.html

  34. Kate,pay no attention to the walters,or variations of that name. The expression “a right Wally” did not occur by chance.

  35. Christmas blessings to Kate, EBD, et al. and all the readers and commenters at SDA! Remember to celebrate all 12 days of the season!
    What Sweeter Music?, a beautiful carol, sung by King’s College Cambridge, music by John Rutter, words by Robert Herrick (1591-1674):
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZa3vMKwq38
    Merry Christmas!

  36. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    It’s a wrap.
    “many in the Kremlin calculated that winter would kill it off.”
    …-
    “December 24, 2011 Massive Russian Protest Poses Growing Challenge to Putin”
    “When Russia’s protest movement started three weeks ago, many in the Kremlin calculated that winter would kill it off.”
    …-
    “Canada freezes Syrian regime’s assets”
    http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q&js=0

  37. Praise be to Lord Jebus that we have no further mentions of Slow Train Coming by Dire Straits, with atrocious vocalizations by Ashkenazi goat Robert Zimmerman from Hibbing, Minnesota. Furniture and dry goods, mostly.

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