Christmas Greeting from the Prime Minister.
Christmas in Kandahar You can pass along your own greetings at this CF message board.
Update: “Defence Minister Peter MacKay served up turkey and tourtière to the Canadian troops in Afghanistan on Christmas Day,”
Return to Bethlehem.
Reagan’s Christmas message from 1981.
There’s one at every party. “Peace on Earth, Ill Will Towards Men.”
Add your own Christmas related links or messages in the comments.

Like Fargo^[1], this is a movie that grows on you.

Or it did on me.
Footnotes:
[1] The only film I’ve ever seen that accurately^[2] depicts winter on the northern plains.
[2] Except for the part with the blood in the trees.

Trust the bride to choose a dress from the Beheaded Line.
(Tangentially related)

Learn about it at Alberta Advantage.

Regular SDA reader (and he adds – frequent Weblog Awards vote caster) Gary Valcour is requesting your assistance in the final round of the National Post’s “Canada — in six words or less” contest.
It’s an entry worthy of SDA support, I do believe!

The National Post is having a contest – Canada in six words or less.

There’s a lot to like about our country, but thus far, the vast majority of entries have surprisingly been negative and, often, rather political. Judging by their suggestions, Jeff Spooner and Al Blow think that we’re a mediocre country, and proud of it: The former offered us “Canada: Birthplace of mediocrity” and the latter’s “Canada: Mediocre and reasonably proud of it” was a slightly more ironic variation on the same theme. Ori Rubin, who worked on the motto problem while raking leaves in the backyard with his dad, offered a similarly wry message: “Because the world needs more vanilla.”

h/t Darcey.

Lots more at the Monarchist for those of you who (like me) missed it. (link fixed)

Say what you will about the risks presented by Chinese imports – they still haven’t managed to top this.

“He rips the helmet off and AHHHH! that was a delivery right up the nostril express!“

(Calgary radio announcer calling the Allan Rourke vs Eric Nystrom fight during tonight’s Flames – Oilers game.)

Of Great Chief Warner Bros. (mp3)
Source: CKOM’s “Meeting Ground”

Story

Ouch.
h/t

How, exactly?

“Maybe it’s just me, but if you are putting things on the internet that demand the scrambling of people’s faces, maybe the problem is lack of judgment.”

You don’t say.

(h/t to Vitruvius in the comments)

Just to train the little buggers how to use a sidewalk.

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